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We Feel Like a Family Now

As a single mother, Deena felt alone. After overcoming years of addiction, she acquired a fulltime job and was able to bring her teenage children home from the care of a close relative. It was only then that she learned how her children had suffered substantial abuse in the hands of someone she trusted. Because of the trauma they experienced, each of the children struggled with complex and overwhelming behaviors. Her oldest, a young man of sixteen, was involved with the court system due to drug use and skipping school. Her youngest, a young girl of twelve, was recently hospitalized for severe mental health issues. Deena did not know how to help them. She could no longer trust her relatives, and she knew she didn’t have answers herself.

She turned to CEDARS.

When Deena came to us, she did not know the importance of consistent mental health care for herself or for her children. But she came with a strong desire to help her family to be successful.

Emma, a Family Partner from our Partners in Permanency program, walked alongside Deena and her family to support them and to help them to set and to realize healthy goals. Deena was able to set personal goals to become financially, emotionally and physically healthy. She was also able to set goals to provide consistent mental health care for her children after learning how important it was. Together, the family set goals in healthcare, budgeting and financial stability, and school performance. Throughout the time spent together the family developed another goal. They wanted to improve their relationships with each other.

With the help of Emma and the CEDARS team, the family completed all of their goals.

Deena told Emma that she has found support in several friends and trustworthy family members. This has helped much of her stress to dissipate.

“We feel like a family. We can focus on each other now,” Deena said before she became overwhelmed discussing just how far her family has come. She hugged her youngest daughter close and fought back tears. “We’re a family.”

Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide, whether online or offline, and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, ethical practices, and the needs of our users.
CEDARS respects the privacy of those who visit this site.

Information We Collect?
When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide
We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your e-mail address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, employment application, or a tax-deductible transaction.
If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
The names of donors are kept in strictest confidence. Whether the information has been provided online or offline, your information will never be sold, rented or exchanged with other organizations.
CEDARS never gives away nor sells information about our donors. If you choose to email us and provide personally identifiable information about yourself, CEDARS will use this information only to respond to your inquiry. CEDARS will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose that information to third parties unless such a disclosure is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy, by law or a policy or notice contained or associated with a specific CEDARS product or service.

Website Use Information
When you visit our site, our Web server automatically recognizes the domain name of your computer or Web-enabled device.
This website compiles conventional log files to monitor and assess activity including traffic and visits on, and related to, the site. This activity does not specifically identify any individual user without prior notice to the user through use of the site.
We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to this site. The information collected is used to improve and enhance the content and services of this site.

Cookies
This site collects cookies to capture information about page visits. This information is anonymous and CEDARS uses this information only internally.
Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Information from the cookies is used to gauge page popularity, analyze traffic patterns on our site and guide development of other improvements to this site. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users.
When you visit this site CEDARS may use cookies and aggregate data to better connect with you on social media and other websites afterwards. To understand your privacy and security on Facebook please visit https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. To understand your privacy and security on Google please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. To opt out of Google Analytics please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
CEDARS does not require that you accept cookies, however some functionality on this site may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies.

Security
We use industry-standard encryption technology, including SSL encryption, when transferring and receiving payments and other sensitive data. We have security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you.
Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Our organization’s values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.

Access And Correction
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect and maintain in our database by e-mailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.

Accountability
If you feel that CEDARS is not living up to its stated privacy policy, you may contact us using the contact form provided within the site structure of this website.

Permission for Use Of Materials
The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means - mechanical or electronic - without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.

Terms & Conditions

Donation Refund Policy

We are grateful for your donation and support of our organization. If you have made an error in making your donation or change your mind about contributing to our organization please contact us. Refunds are returned using the original method of payment. If you made your donation by credit card, your refund will be credited to that same credit card.

Automated Recurring Donation Cancellation

Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.